'Stories about the Motherland' is a bold, almost impudent book. Perhaps the first attempt to give a new - honest, accurate - description of our country in a long time. Real and false patriotism, living Russia and TV-screen Russia, power and people... Dmitry Glukhovsky takes up the most important, most sensitive topics of our life today and speaks about them in the tone in which political...

Жизнь в Дальнем Лесу не назовёшь спокойной: ни дня без преступлений, погонь, подозрений и зверских интриг. Наконец все книги «Зверского детектива» Анны Старобинец: «Логово волка», «Право хищника», «Когти гнева» и «Щипач» — публикуются под одной обложкой, причём «Щипач» выходит впервые. Каждая книга — отдельная детективная история, в которой следствие ведут пожилой и опытный сыщик Барсук Старший...

Spanning sixty tumultuous years of Ukrainian history, this multigenerational saga weaves a dramatic and intricate web of love, sex, friendship, and death. At its center: three women linked by the abandoned secrets of the past, secrets that refuse to remain hidden.

An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novelÆs vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could

The manual is intended for independent reading and is addressed to a wide range of foreign students, interns and graduate students of a non-humanitarian profile, primarily to future engineers, whose cognitive style the author was guided by. The manual consistently outlines the paths of development of physics up to its latest achievements. The entire material is divided into two independent...

Андрей Сергеевич Некрасов (1907–1987) — русский писатель, автор знаменитой юмористической повести 'Приключения капитана Врунгеля' — книги на все времена о небывалых приключениях старого морского волка капитана Врунгеляи двух его помощников-друзей Лома и Фукса. Автор сам в юности был матросом, побывал и на Крайнем Севере, и наДальнем Востоке... И чем бы он ни занимался, всегда много читал и...

'June' by Dmitry Bykov is, as always, a vivid experiment. Three different stories are united by time and place. The end of the thirties and the middle of 1941. IFLI students, returning from exile, a mad philologist who thinks he has found a way to influence major decisions in the country through text. There is a premonition of war in the air, which the heroes of the novel both fear and rush....

Маленький сирота Ким - коренной индиец, хотя его отец был солдатом Британской колониальной армии. Он свободно говорит на многочисленных местных диалектах и уверенно чувствует себя в пестром круговороте индийской жизни, где как в калейдоскопе переплетаются разнообразные культуры и религии. Путешествуя по древней стране вместе со странствующим тибетским ламой, мальчик переживает множество...

The era in which Andrei Bitov lived ... These are the years of the thaw - a time of hope, a bright entry into literature, and a period of 'stagnation', when the main novel 'Pushkin's House' could only be read in samizdat. And perestroika, and the turbulent 1990s, and transformations in the country - a different breath, changes in life and work. An intellectual writer, a unique interlocutor -...

У коварных грабителей новый план: они прокрадутся на ферму и украдут самую красивую красную курицу. К счастью, умная божья коровка уже в курсе их идеи и не позволит нарушить покой родной фермы

What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called 'Quirks?' Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?

Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy-it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse...